Coming Up At ICRA 2010: Workshops on Grasping and Manipulation

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 23:03

ICRA 2010 is fast approaching, and we're excited to pack up and head north
for a week. Until then, we'd like to share some of the work you can
expect to see from us in Anchorage. Over the next month, we'll
periodically run blog posts spotlighting some of the papers we'll be
presenting, and workshops we'll be participating in. If you see something
that strikes your fancy, drop on by!

This full-day workshop will take place on Monday, May 3 (9:00 am-12:30 pm and 2:00 pm-5:30 pm) in the Dena'ina Center, Tubughnenq' 4.

Another workshop to look for is the Workshop on Mobile
Manipulation, organized by
Patrick Pfaff, Wolfram Burgard, Kris Hauser, Sachin Chitta, and Oliver
Brock. This workshop will discuss the state of the art of
mobile manipulation research. Willow Garage's Kaijen Hsiao, Matei Ciocarlie, Gil Jones, and Sachin Chitta will be among the participants,
presenting "Contact-Reactive Grasping of
Objects with Partial Shape Information." For a glimpse of their work,
see the video on reactive grasping, below.

The full-day workshop will take place on Friday, May 7 (9:00 am-12:30 pm and 2:00 pm-5:30 pm) in the Dena'ina Center, Tubughnenq' 3.